NYU Law in Buenos Aires

NYU-UBA Annual Conference | Conferencia Annual NYU-UBA

Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South
La heterodoxia jurídica en el Sur global

April 13-14, 2023, UBA Law School
13 y 14 de abril de 2023, Facultad de Derecho, UBA   

Conference Organizers

Kevin E. Davis
Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University 

Mariana Pargendler
Full Professor of Law at FGV São Paulo; Global Professor of Law at New York University 

Marcelo Alegre
Professor of Law and Philosophy at Universidad de Buenos Aires; Global Professor of Law at New York University

Program | Programa

April 13

UBA Law School, Instituto Gioja (1st floor). Instituto Gioja (1er piso), Facultad de Derecho, UBA.

Welcome
9:30–9:45

Opening remarks | Palabras introductorias

Session 1: Introduction
9:45–10:15 

Kevin E. Davis (New York University)
Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South: A Research Agenda

Session 2: Contract Consumer and Tort Law*
10:15–12:15 

Weitseng Chen (National University of Singapore)
Contracts, Inequality, and the State – Contract Law Ultra-heterodoxy in China

María Guadalupe Martínez Alles (IE University)
Reducing Inequality in Consumer Transactions: The Significance of Aggravated Vulnerabilities

Discussant: Pablo Suárez (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Lunch (UBA) | Almuerzo (UBA)
12:15–14:00

Session 3: Property*
14:00–16:45

Bianca Margarita Damin Tavolari (Insper)
Evictions during the pandemic: an empirical discussion from the Brazilian legal experience

Jorge Esquirol (Florida International University)
Heterodox Legal Informality: Some Examples from Latin America

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa (University of São Paulo)
Heterodoxy of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Patent Law: A Blueprint for Opposing Neo-Archaism of Global Monopolies?

Discussants: Paola Bergallo (CONICET - National Scientific and Technical Research Council; Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Patricio Kenny (Universidad de Buenos Aires; New York University)

Welcome Reception (NYU) | Cena (NYU)   
19:00

 

April 14

UBA Law School, Instituto Gioja (1st floor). Instituto Gioja (1er piso), Facultad de Derecho, UBA.

Session 4: Tort and Corporate Law*
9:30–12:15

Benjamin Liebman (Columbia University)
Liability Beyond Law: Conceptions of Fairness in Chinese Tort Cases

Vikramaditya Khanna (University of Michigan)
The Political Economy of India's Corporate Social Responsibility Reforms

Mariana Pargendler (New York University)
Corporate Law in the Global South: Heterodox Stakeholderism

Discussants: Guillermo Cabanellas (DLA Piper Argentina), Martín Hevia (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), Rafael Manóvil (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Lunch
12:15–14:00

Session 5: Governance Innovations and Rights of Nature
14:00–15:40 

Nkatha Kabira (University of Nairobi)
Commissionizing Governance in Kenya

Daniel Bonilla Maldonado (University of Los Andes)
Global Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Nature

Discussants: Marcelo Alegre (Universidad de Buenos Aires; New York University), Lautaro Furfaro (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Florencia Saulino (New York University)

Session 6: Concluding Reflections and Next Steps
16:00–16:30

Marcelo Alegre (Universidad de Buenos Aires; New York University)

Kevin E. Davis (New York University)

Mariana Pargendler (New York University)

 

*Sessions with an asterisk include a coffee break.